I know you’re itching to find out how Scott Gomez is doing with the Alaska Aces of the ECHL. Going crazy wondering. You can’t eat. You can’t sleep. You’ve started to bite your fingernails again. You’re a wreck. He and his team are doing this: The Aces sit in first place in the Western Conference [...]
November 26, 2012 in Bob Gainey, Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Alaska Aces, Bob Gainey, Colorado Eagles, Idaho Steelheads, Scott Gomez, Stckton Thunder, Utah Grizzlies | 5 Comments »
Ralph Backstrom, a great Hab, a tremendous skater, and the player I tried to copy when I was young. Although it didn’t help. What’s he up to now? Huge thanks to my buddy Mel St. Onge in Orillia for sending me this terrific news clip from Colorado.
April 27, 2012 in Jacques Plante, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Ralph Backstrom, Uncategorized
Tags: Colorado Eagles, Jacques Plante, Maurice Richard, Ralph Backstrom | 3 Comments »
One of the most important players on the Habs of the early 1960′s, and a third and fourth line grinder at that. Dave Balon and his beautiful wife. Sadly, Balon passed away several years back, and it was way too early. Balon was one of those guys who was never a star, but was a hard worker, a [...]
June 6, 2008 in Henri Richard, Jean Beliveau, Lovely Habs Wives, Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Central Hockey League, Colorado Eagles, Dave Balon, Francis Backstrom, Habs, Henri Richard, hockey, Montreal Canadiens, Ralph Backstrom, Tom Kostopoulos, University of Denver | 1 Comment »